This year the 3-A State Championship will be held in Reynold's Coliseum at N C State. Tonight high schools around the area begin what four boys and four girls teams will result in championships in their classification. Rocky Mount hopes to make their fourth straight trip to the Regional and if it happens they will find the usual suspects there as their main obstacles.. Who are the main suspects who might win the East.
J F Webb -Oxford. They are second in the latest N C Preps poll and are lead by UNC recruit Isaiah Hicks at six feet nine inches. Webb is in a dog fight with conference foe Chapel Hill in their league. Webb and Chapel Hill have split during the regular season. Heading to this week Webb is 17-3.
Westover-Fayetteville. Seems every year Westover is playing in the Regional and they have a good shot again this year. They stand 16-4 but three losses have come at the hands of 4-A schools. Ranked eighth in latest poll.
Chapel Hill-Chapel Hill. Rocky Mount beat Chapel Hill at Thanksgiving by 14. Seems as if Thanksgiving was last century. Ranked 11th in latest poll.
Triton-Ervin. 12th in polls. This season 16-3. Sure would like to try Rocky Mount out again this year
Hunt-Wilson 15th in latest poll. Good combination of size up front and quick back court. How far either Rocky Mount or Hunt can go in playoff could be determined this week in which one wins Big East Tournament.
Rocky Mount- Rocky Mount. Winning two titles in three years everyone looks to see if they are in same bracket as the Gryphons. Third in last poll 20-2 over all. Have just as good of a chance as anybody to head to Raleigh.
Northern Nash Girls-Rocky Mount #1 latest poll 20-0. Have every thing needed to win it all. Should get all home games to Regional.
Chapel Hill-Chapel Hill. #2 only loss to Northern at Northern. Will probably be in different bracket than Northern until Regional. Would like to play Northern on neutral floor.
Eastern Wayne-Goldsboro. 20-1 Could be sleeper in the East
South Central- Winterville 18-2 Tall and quick. Beat Rocky Mount in Rocky Mount before Christmas. Been there before will be tough out.
Three weeks from tonight four of these teams could be heading to Fayetteville to East Regional. Will an unknown find the magic and knock some of these king pins out?
Monday, February 11, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Thinking Out Loud
Sorry to see this morning in the Rocky Mount Telegram of the death of Chuck Hinton. Growing up I had more than 4,000 baseball cards that I kept in the bottom of my closet in Maola five gallon Ice Cream tubs. I use to keep rubber bands around players that I had more than one of. I think I had 27 of Mickey Mantle and I had one of Chuck Hinton. After I had gone to work in life and moved from home I came home one weekend to find my mother had given my collection to one of my cousins.
Chuck was a lifetime 264 hitter mostly with the Washington Senators. He twice in his career had hitting streaks of more than 15 games. He played big league ball for 11 years and I can almost remember looking at his stats on the back of that baseball card and remember it saying Home Rocky Mount NC. Hinton was 78 years old. Sadly he died almost two weeks ago but just hearing of his death now.
The Nash County Board Of Education made a truly rather large mistake when they chose not to built a gym at Rocky Mount High School that would hold 2,000 or more people. They made the same mistake when Nash Central was built.
I bet 3,000 or more would have bought tickets Friday night but you couldn't even find a parking space on pavement on the school grounds. I am a person who likes to count. If I go to any building that has seats I like to count just how many the place will hold. From press row I counted the first row across the way had 50 people from one end to the other. There are 12 rows high and the top row of course doesn't have the isle dividers so there were 612 people sitting on the far side. If the near side had the same then about 1225 people were sitting in the stands. A throng of people never got in. Even more people we sitting in folding chairs with the cheer leaders under each basket. even more were standing.
Here we are the City of Rocky Mount the so called "City On The Rise" and there is not a meeting place in the entire city limits that a group of 5,000 can meet inside out of the weather. Rocky Mount needs a building for inside sports at least the size of Williams Arena at ECU. If we had something that size all of the big time high school games could be played there instead of a gym where people can't even get to go to the game. Who knows if there was a palace with plenty of parking there might have been 8,000 there Friday night.
If Rocky Mount had such a place they could try to get the East Regional here. Maybe even other State Championships. Lord knows some music star might be able to perform here that you have heard of before other than some singer hoping to make it big one day.
Other Thoughts: I wish Northern Nash girls had a little more speed in the line up. The playoffs are all about match ups. If the Lady Knights don't win it all they will lose to a tall quick team.
If Rocky Mount boys don't win it all they will lose to a quick team. A team like last year's Hickory team was. This year's squad doesn't handle the ball as well as last year and have had trouble against the really quick teams. They must shoot well from the outside too.
If Hunt doesn't win it all it will be because they are tall but soft inside. Some where they will meet up with a team that will pound the ball inside and their outside shots will not fall.
Rocky Mount High mopped up in the Wrestling championships Saturday. They won more than half of all the weight classes. J J Jones has got something going on the mats at RMHS.
Congrats to Casey Cooke for becoming the first Lady Gryphon to receive a Division 1 scholarship in soccer. Cullowee is a beautiful place.
Chuck was a lifetime 264 hitter mostly with the Washington Senators. He twice in his career had hitting streaks of more than 15 games. He played big league ball for 11 years and I can almost remember looking at his stats on the back of that baseball card and remember it saying Home Rocky Mount NC. Hinton was 78 years old. Sadly he died almost two weeks ago but just hearing of his death now.
The Nash County Board Of Education made a truly rather large mistake when they chose not to built a gym at Rocky Mount High School that would hold 2,000 or more people. They made the same mistake when Nash Central was built.
I bet 3,000 or more would have bought tickets Friday night but you couldn't even find a parking space on pavement on the school grounds. I am a person who likes to count. If I go to any building that has seats I like to count just how many the place will hold. From press row I counted the first row across the way had 50 people from one end to the other. There are 12 rows high and the top row of course doesn't have the isle dividers so there were 612 people sitting on the far side. If the near side had the same then about 1225 people were sitting in the stands. A throng of people never got in. Even more people we sitting in folding chairs with the cheer leaders under each basket. even more were standing.
Here we are the City of Rocky Mount the so called "City On The Rise" and there is not a meeting place in the entire city limits that a group of 5,000 can meet inside out of the weather. Rocky Mount needs a building for inside sports at least the size of Williams Arena at ECU. If we had something that size all of the big time high school games could be played there instead of a gym where people can't even get to go to the game. Who knows if there was a palace with plenty of parking there might have been 8,000 there Friday night.
If Rocky Mount had such a place they could try to get the East Regional here. Maybe even other State Championships. Lord knows some music star might be able to perform here that you have heard of before other than some singer hoping to make it big one day.
Other Thoughts: I wish Northern Nash girls had a little more speed in the line up. The playoffs are all about match ups. If the Lady Knights don't win it all they will lose to a tall quick team.
If Rocky Mount boys don't win it all they will lose to a quick team. A team like last year's Hickory team was. This year's squad doesn't handle the ball as well as last year and have had trouble against the really quick teams. They must shoot well from the outside too.
If Hunt doesn't win it all it will be because they are tall but soft inside. Some where they will meet up with a team that will pound the ball inside and their outside shots will not fall.
Rocky Mount High mopped up in the Wrestling championships Saturday. They won more than half of all the weight classes. J J Jones has got something going on the mats at RMHS.
Congrats to Casey Cooke for becoming the first Lady Gryphon to receive a Division 1 scholarship in soccer. Cullowee is a beautiful place.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Big East Tournament Seeds Set
The 2013 Big East Basketball Tournament starts Monday night at Hunt High School in Wilson. Monday belongs to the boys and Tuesday the girls get their first taste of the 2013 Playoffs. Hunt drew the #1 seed on the boys side leaving Rocky Mount as the #2 seed. The seeding for the state playoff will rest on which of those two schools either wins the Tournament or goes further in the tournament than the other.
Monday will begin at 6PM with the 4/5 game featuring Northern Nash and Southern Nash. Northern won both encounters during the regular season. The 7:30 game is #3 Nash Central and #6 Fike. The 4/5 winner plays Hunt at 6PM Wednesday in the semi's while the 3/6 Winner will have Rocky Mount on the radar.
Tuesday begins with the 4/5 girls game which will be Hunt/ Fike and the 7:30 game is the 3/6 match up of Rocky Mount against Southern Nash. Southern is on a two game conference winning streak and Rocky Mount was a victim in one of those two games. Thursday night's semi final action will send the top seed and undefeated Lady Knights Of Northern Nash to meet the 4/5 winner and Nash Central will hook up against the 3/6 winner.
Friday night is the championship in both tournaments with the girls taking the floor at six followed by the surviving boys game. WHIG-TV has plans to tape both of the championship games and I will be doing the girls game while Wes Bradshaw will cover the boys. Whatever the outcome of the tournament will determine how the brackets will unfold in the state playoffs as next Saturday night at 6pm we should know where all four of the top four teams from the Big East will play and where.
The boys top fours seeds are Hunt, Rocky Mount, Nash Central and Northern Nash. The girls are Northern Nash, Nash Central, Rocky Mount and Hunt. The only way these four seeds in both boys and girls don't make the playoffs is if a five or six seed pulls off the major upset and wins the tournament knocking the fourth seed out. So Northern's boys and since there is a three way tie for second among the girls Nash Central, Rocky Mount and Hunt one of those could get knocked out if either Southern Nash or Fike win the tournament.
This years playoffs will be seeded by over all which means the Big East winner could be any where from 1-5 seed with every conference champion, Then the #2 seeds and depending on whether you are a top eight seed in the seeding process the #2 might not even get a home game and yes there is a chance that a #4 from Big East could be matched with #1 in the first game. It will totally be where you are in the seedings.
We hope it doesn't come down to the way if fell out last year with Rocky Mount girls and Northern Nash girls meeting in the sectional finals. Should any Big East teams make it to the sectional finals we hope they are in different sectionals and would not meet until the Regional. Four weeks from today their will be state championship day for high school basketball.
Monday will begin at 6PM with the 4/5 game featuring Northern Nash and Southern Nash. Northern won both encounters during the regular season. The 7:30 game is #3 Nash Central and #6 Fike. The 4/5 winner plays Hunt at 6PM Wednesday in the semi's while the 3/6 Winner will have Rocky Mount on the radar.
Tuesday begins with the 4/5 girls game which will be Hunt/ Fike and the 7:30 game is the 3/6 match up of Rocky Mount against Southern Nash. Southern is on a two game conference winning streak and Rocky Mount was a victim in one of those two games. Thursday night's semi final action will send the top seed and undefeated Lady Knights Of Northern Nash to meet the 4/5 winner and Nash Central will hook up against the 3/6 winner.
Friday night is the championship in both tournaments with the girls taking the floor at six followed by the surviving boys game. WHIG-TV has plans to tape both of the championship games and I will be doing the girls game while Wes Bradshaw will cover the boys. Whatever the outcome of the tournament will determine how the brackets will unfold in the state playoffs as next Saturday night at 6pm we should know where all four of the top four teams from the Big East will play and where.
The boys top fours seeds are Hunt, Rocky Mount, Nash Central and Northern Nash. The girls are Northern Nash, Nash Central, Rocky Mount and Hunt. The only way these four seeds in both boys and girls don't make the playoffs is if a five or six seed pulls off the major upset and wins the tournament knocking the fourth seed out. So Northern's boys and since there is a three way tie for second among the girls Nash Central, Rocky Mount and Hunt one of those could get knocked out if either Southern Nash or Fike win the tournament.
This years playoffs will be seeded by over all which means the Big East winner could be any where from 1-5 seed with every conference champion, Then the #2 seeds and depending on whether you are a top eight seed in the seeding process the #2 might not even get a home game and yes there is a chance that a #4 from Big East could be matched with #1 in the first game. It will totally be where you are in the seedings.
We hope it doesn't come down to the way if fell out last year with Rocky Mount girls and Northern Nash girls meeting in the sectional finals. Should any Big East teams make it to the sectional finals we hope they are in different sectionals and would not meet until the Regional. Four weeks from today their will be state championship day for high school basketball.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Lady Knights Are PERFECT
Tonight on the home floor of their biggest rival on their Senior night the Lady Knights of Northern Nash capped off the first undefeated regular season in the history of Northern girls basketball taking down Rocky Mount 47-39. The Lady Knights are 21-0 #1 seed in the Big East and will wait for a seeding in the playoffs late next week in hopes of possibly getting three home games in the districts and sectionals.
Alexus Hill and Quinesha Lynch both scored 13 points but Hill had 7 rebounds while Lynch could gather only 6 to lead the Lady Knights. Carmen Richardson lead Rocky Mount scoring 13. J'Kyra Brown possibly playing her last game at Rocky Mount gym could score but 8 points but she hauled down 10 rebounds. Rocky Mount out rebounded Northern 37-27 but the difference in the game was ball handling as Northern forced Rocky Mount to 26 turnovers while Rocky Mount could only cause 19 for the Knights.
The gym was standing room only at halftime of the boys JV game and many people had to wait until a few people left the JV game to get in the gym. I don't know how many got turned away but as I entered the gym at 5.30 there were 500 people standing in line waiting and hoping to get in.
Also in Big East girls basketball Friday night Southern Nash won their second conference game of the week beating Nash Central who had a chance to claim second all to themselves but the Lady Firebirds win 49-46. Hunt girls also beat Fike 64-58 which now creates a three way tie for second and a coin toss will be held at 10am Saturday to seed the girls for the Big East Conference tournament that starts for the girls Tuesday at Hunt.
Rocky Mount boys earned a tie for first place with a 71-47 victory over the Northern Knight boys. MJ Gainey lead the Gryphon attack with his last regular season game scoring 23 and Donte Battle lead the rebounding with 11. Isiah Alston tossed in 23 for Northern and he also had 9 bounds to lead the Knights there . Rocky Mount won the rebounding battle 43-30 and neither team can be proud of 23 turnovers for Rocky Mount and 29 for Northern.
Other Big East action Hunt beat Fike 72-48 so Rocky Mount and Hunt finish at 9-1 in conference play and there will be a meeting at 10am to decide who gets the #1 seed for the Big East Tournament only. The team that either wins the Big East Tournament or goes further will get the #1 seed in the playoffs.
The boys part in the Big East Tournament starts Monday night and Northern will see action then. Hunt and Rocky Mount have both earned byes and don't play until Wednesday. Nash Central, Southern Nash, and Fike will join Northern Monday.
Alexus Hill and Quinesha Lynch both scored 13 points but Hill had 7 rebounds while Lynch could gather only 6 to lead the Lady Knights. Carmen Richardson lead Rocky Mount scoring 13. J'Kyra Brown possibly playing her last game at Rocky Mount gym could score but 8 points but she hauled down 10 rebounds. Rocky Mount out rebounded Northern 37-27 but the difference in the game was ball handling as Northern forced Rocky Mount to 26 turnovers while Rocky Mount could only cause 19 for the Knights.
The gym was standing room only at halftime of the boys JV game and many people had to wait until a few people left the JV game to get in the gym. I don't know how many got turned away but as I entered the gym at 5.30 there were 500 people standing in line waiting and hoping to get in.
Also in Big East girls basketball Friday night Southern Nash won their second conference game of the week beating Nash Central who had a chance to claim second all to themselves but the Lady Firebirds win 49-46. Hunt girls also beat Fike 64-58 which now creates a three way tie for second and a coin toss will be held at 10am Saturday to seed the girls for the Big East Conference tournament that starts for the girls Tuesday at Hunt.
Rocky Mount boys earned a tie for first place with a 71-47 victory over the Northern Knight boys. MJ Gainey lead the Gryphon attack with his last regular season game scoring 23 and Donte Battle lead the rebounding with 11. Isiah Alston tossed in 23 for Northern and he also had 9 bounds to lead the Knights there . Rocky Mount won the rebounding battle 43-30 and neither team can be proud of 23 turnovers for Rocky Mount and 29 for Northern.
Other Big East action Hunt beat Fike 72-48 so Rocky Mount and Hunt finish at 9-1 in conference play and there will be a meeting at 10am to decide who gets the #1 seed for the Big East Tournament only. The team that either wins the Big East Tournament or goes further will get the #1 seed in the playoffs.
The boys part in the Big East Tournament starts Monday night and Northern will see action then. Hunt and Rocky Mount have both earned byes and don't play until Wednesday. Nash Central, Southern Nash, and Fike will join Northern Monday.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Why Not Make Changes
I had a very tough time watching ESPNU's wall to wall coverage of college football signing day. I don't think they have any more idea who had a good day signing players than I do and I didn't know 20 names they called out all day. But, why is the first Wednesday of the month of February is the day that high school prospects must all fax in their letters of intent? Several players are already enrolled in school from early high school graduations so there is no big rush that yesterday had to be the day. If they are already in school they should be under scholarship
Why don't they have the last day to sign not the first? Many players failed to send in their letters and yet I don't see anybody committing Hari Kari. I think this is another made for TV show because ESPN networks need to fill 24 hours a day.
It sure does seem to me that all colleges looking for new coaches could at least wait until the Bowl season is over before they find new coaches. I would like to see teams play their bowl games with the coaches who got them to the dance not some assistant coach left holding the bag after either the school has fired the coach or the head coach has skipped town at a new job.
They will tell you it is so they can have a coach in place by signing day so he can hit the recruiting trail. If April 30th was the last day to turn in your letter of intent there would be no need to get a coach in place so quickly. Those of us who work for a living also know that when there is a job opening it takes forever to fill that job with all the requirements to find the right person. How can colleges find the right person in a week?
I just don't understand why NFL teams as soon as they are knocked out of the playoffs fire their coaches and hire a new one when probably the best coaches are still in the playoffs and some of them are going to win the Super Bowl. It is a disadvantage for a coordinator to be in the Super Bowl because all the jobs are gone. Who would you rather have somebody that just got fired last week or a coach that just showed they can win the big one?
72 hours after the Super Bowl yes I think it was holding in the end zone but like I said just a few days ago with the way the rules are enforced these days who knows what they are going to call if they call anything. My biggest question is why did the 49's run three straight plays and never try to get their quarterback rolling with the run/pass threat. I don't think the refs lost the game but a bad job of coaching lost it.
I can't understand almost four days since the Super Bowl ended they still don't know why the lights went out. I think there was a conspiracy. The Ravens were about to make it a lopsided game and if people started turning away then the rates on the TV ads would start falling. I bet if they finger printed the electrical box they will find finger prints of somebody from CBS who pulled the plug knowing once the lights went out it would take a while for they to come back on.
I heard this at lunch one day this week on the Colin Cowherd show. The NCAA national championship game had a 16.5 rating which are huge numbers. The 35 minutes the lights were out the TV ratings were 46.5 or three times higher than the National Championship game. Where's Barney Fife and his finger print kit?
Why don't they have the last day to sign not the first? Many players failed to send in their letters and yet I don't see anybody committing Hari Kari. I think this is another made for TV show because ESPN networks need to fill 24 hours a day.
It sure does seem to me that all colleges looking for new coaches could at least wait until the Bowl season is over before they find new coaches. I would like to see teams play their bowl games with the coaches who got them to the dance not some assistant coach left holding the bag after either the school has fired the coach or the head coach has skipped town at a new job.
They will tell you it is so they can have a coach in place by signing day so he can hit the recruiting trail. If April 30th was the last day to turn in your letter of intent there would be no need to get a coach in place so quickly. Those of us who work for a living also know that when there is a job opening it takes forever to fill that job with all the requirements to find the right person. How can colleges find the right person in a week?
I just don't understand why NFL teams as soon as they are knocked out of the playoffs fire their coaches and hire a new one when probably the best coaches are still in the playoffs and some of them are going to win the Super Bowl. It is a disadvantage for a coordinator to be in the Super Bowl because all the jobs are gone. Who would you rather have somebody that just got fired last week or a coach that just showed they can win the big one?
72 hours after the Super Bowl yes I think it was holding in the end zone but like I said just a few days ago with the way the rules are enforced these days who knows what they are going to call if they call anything. My biggest question is why did the 49's run three straight plays and never try to get their quarterback rolling with the run/pass threat. I don't think the refs lost the game but a bad job of coaching lost it.
I can't understand almost four days since the Super Bowl ended they still don't know why the lights went out. I think there was a conspiracy. The Ravens were about to make it a lopsided game and if people started turning away then the rates on the TV ads would start falling. I bet if they finger printed the electrical box they will find finger prints of somebody from CBS who pulled the plug knowing once the lights went out it would take a while for they to come back on.
I heard this at lunch one day this week on the Colin Cowherd show. The NCAA national championship game had a 16.5 rating which are huge numbers. The 35 minutes the lights were out the TV ratings were 46.5 or three times higher than the National Championship game. Where's Barney Fife and his finger print kit?
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Injuries Can Change Your Life
We hear all the time people while working during their lifetime get injured and they never are able to return to a normal life after that.
Sports is the same, an injury to a key player can make a contender a pretender. Northern girls last year were never quite the same after Alexus Hill injured her knee during a regular season game. She played to the best of her ability with the injury but the Lady Knights never were as strong as they were when she was healthy.
Duke this year has the same problem. The #1 team in college basketball and one of their best three point shooters goes down and Duke is a top 20 team but no where near a final four product now. Coach K has said that they are really good when all the pieces fit and right now they don't fit with Kelly on the sidelines.
Rocky Mount girls went through the first round of conference play at 4-1 with Northern being the only team they can't handle. J'Kyra Brown's injury and right now they can't beat anybody. Once again not being full strength is hurting the Lady Gryphons.
Nash Central has suffered a major blow losing Timyra Staton. They head into Friday night with an opportunity to finish second out right. Nash Central is a case of a team that those that have replaced Staton have stepped forward and her loss is not as noticeable because the bench has answered the statement "Next one up" Throughout sports coaches preach to bench warmers to work hard and be prepared that it only takes one play and you are in the lineup when an injury occurrs.
Every injury effects teams differently depending on how good the player hurt is and how the bench comes up and fills the gap. Duke's case I don't see that anyone player has stepped up to fill the Kelly's injury as much as Coach K just knows how to hide a teams short comings.
Rocky Mount simply doesn't have anyone one the bench that can replace one of the best players in the state. N C State is going through the Lo Brown injury right now. Tyler Lewis played well as his replacement last time out and if he plays that well the rest of the season then Brown's injury will have help improve the Wolfpack for down the road where they may fall again with him out.
Injuries are never good as any player who misses time because they can never get it back. What all teams hope that happens is a 1983 that happened for the Wolfpack. Those who played during the Whittenburg injury strengthened the Pack for later in the season. They could depend on the bench in the playoffs where they could not until those replacements got more playing time.
Time is running out on the high school season and those filling in now must step up quickly or the season will be over soon.
Sports is the same, an injury to a key player can make a contender a pretender. Northern girls last year were never quite the same after Alexus Hill injured her knee during a regular season game. She played to the best of her ability with the injury but the Lady Knights never were as strong as they were when she was healthy.
Duke this year has the same problem. The #1 team in college basketball and one of their best three point shooters goes down and Duke is a top 20 team but no where near a final four product now. Coach K has said that they are really good when all the pieces fit and right now they don't fit with Kelly on the sidelines.
Rocky Mount girls went through the first round of conference play at 4-1 with Northern being the only team they can't handle. J'Kyra Brown's injury and right now they can't beat anybody. Once again not being full strength is hurting the Lady Gryphons.
Nash Central has suffered a major blow losing Timyra Staton. They head into Friday night with an opportunity to finish second out right. Nash Central is a case of a team that those that have replaced Staton have stepped forward and her loss is not as noticeable because the bench has answered the statement "Next one up" Throughout sports coaches preach to bench warmers to work hard and be prepared that it only takes one play and you are in the lineup when an injury occurrs.
Every injury effects teams differently depending on how good the player hurt is and how the bench comes up and fills the gap. Duke's case I don't see that anyone player has stepped up to fill the Kelly's injury as much as Coach K just knows how to hide a teams short comings.
Rocky Mount simply doesn't have anyone one the bench that can replace one of the best players in the state. N C State is going through the Lo Brown injury right now. Tyler Lewis played well as his replacement last time out and if he plays that well the rest of the season then Brown's injury will have help improve the Wolfpack for down the road where they may fall again with him out.
Injuries are never good as any player who misses time because they can never get it back. What all teams hope that happens is a 1983 that happened for the Wolfpack. Those who played during the Whittenburg injury strengthened the Pack for later in the season. They could depend on the bench in the playoffs where they could not until those replacements got more playing time.
Time is running out on the high school season and those filling in now must step up quickly or the season will be over soon.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Northern Stays Perfect
The last week of the season is not easy for either Northern Nash teams as tonight's Fike game and Friday's Rocky Mount visit are both on the road. The Lady Knights will try to finish the season perfect when they head to the Mount after taking care of business at Fike winning 68-47.
Only once this year has anyone taken the Lady Knights to the wire and that was Rocky Mount in the Nash County Holiday tournament. That game went to over time before Northern could get a hold of the game in winning 55-50. The rolls have been reversed this season as Northern played the last few games last year with a gimpy Alexus Hill and this season Rocky Mount is limping with J'Kyra Brown's knee injury.
After a great win on Friday against arch rival Nash Central Northern boys headed to Fike with a head of steam but a player has been dismissed from the team this week and another not playing tonight and it cost the Knights greatly. They were down 15-3 at the end of the first quarter and never could catch up
Over at Nash Central the Lady Bulldogs and Hunt Warriors were in a battle to hang on to a shot at second on Friday. Both Hunt and Nash Central were 4-4 and this one was played as if the playoffs were on the line. Nash Central 40 Hunt 38. A victory by the Lady Bulldogs Friday a with Southern Nash just might pull second place out for Nash Central.
Hunt kept up their end of the bargain and remained tied for first place with Rocky Mount as they down Nash Central 46-40 at Nash Central. They are 8-1 heading to Fike Friday night to end the regular season. Next week the conference basketball tournament will be at Hunt.
At this hour I have heard nothing from either of the games with Rocky Mount at Southern Nash. Whether Rocky Mount boys still hold a share of the Big East lead or if the girls are one game ahead of Nash Central I don't know at this hour. * Rocky Mount boys beat Southern 59-36 while Lady Firebirds beat Rocky Mount 49-43. Those modern conveniences. I washed my cell phone last week and with it all of my speed dial numbers so at this point tonight I don't have any body's cell phone number that can get me the scores. Where is my 1970's rolodex?
Only once this year has anyone taken the Lady Knights to the wire and that was Rocky Mount in the Nash County Holiday tournament. That game went to over time before Northern could get a hold of the game in winning 55-50. The rolls have been reversed this season as Northern played the last few games last year with a gimpy Alexus Hill and this season Rocky Mount is limping with J'Kyra Brown's knee injury.
After a great win on Friday against arch rival Nash Central Northern boys headed to Fike with a head of steam but a player has been dismissed from the team this week and another not playing tonight and it cost the Knights greatly. They were down 15-3 at the end of the first quarter and never could catch up
Over at Nash Central the Lady Bulldogs and Hunt Warriors were in a battle to hang on to a shot at second on Friday. Both Hunt and Nash Central were 4-4 and this one was played as if the playoffs were on the line. Nash Central 40 Hunt 38. A victory by the Lady Bulldogs Friday a with Southern Nash just might pull second place out for Nash Central.
Hunt kept up their end of the bargain and remained tied for first place with Rocky Mount as they down Nash Central 46-40 at Nash Central. They are 8-1 heading to Fike Friday night to end the regular season. Next week the conference basketball tournament will be at Hunt.
At this hour I have heard nothing from either of the games with Rocky Mount at Southern Nash. Whether Rocky Mount boys still hold a share of the Big East lead or if the girls are one game ahead of Nash Central I don't know at this hour. * Rocky Mount boys beat Southern 59-36 while Lady Firebirds beat Rocky Mount 49-43. Those modern conveniences. I washed my cell phone last week and with it all of my speed dial numbers so at this point tonight I don't have any body's cell phone number that can get me the scores. Where is my 1970's rolodex?
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